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San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Seismic Safety Project San Francisco County

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

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Remaking The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge

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Author : Karen Trapenberg Frick
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-14

Remaking The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge written by Karen Trapenberg Frick and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-14 with Architecture categories.

Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of the State’s and the region’s leading elected officials, engineers, architects and other members of the governing elites against a collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to $6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her final chapter – part epilogue, part reflection – provides recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.

Timeline Of The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Retrofit

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Author : Daniel Pollak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Timeline Of The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Retrofit written by Daniel Pollak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Bridges categories.

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge

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Author : Ernest Cromwell Mensch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge written by Ernest Cromwell Mensch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Bridges categories.

High Steel

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Author : Richard Dillon
language : en
Publisher: Celestial Arts
Release Date : 1979

High Steel written by Richard Dillon and has been published by Celestial Arts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Reference categories.

The construction of the Golden Gate and the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridges caught the imagination of the world, and they continue to inspire awe even today. >High Steel records the history of these magnificent bridges and their development. The bridges were designed to serve transportation needs while being flexible enough to withstand major earthquakes, but their architectural triumph is that they also enhance the beauty of their natural surroundings. >High Steel is a tribute to and record of the magnitude of that accomplishment.

A Study Of The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933

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A Tale Of Two Bridges

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Author : Stephen Mikesell
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2017-04-03

A Tale Of Two Bridges written by Stephen Mikesell and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-03 with Architecture categories.

A Tale of Two Bridges is a history of two versions of the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge: the original bridge built in 1936 and a replacement for the eastern half of the bridge finished in 2013. The 1936 bridge revolutionized transportation in the Bay Area and profoundly influenced settlement patterns in the region. It was also a remarkable feat of engineering. In the 1950s the American Society of Civil Engineers adopted a list of the “Seven Engineering Wonders” of the United States. The 1936 structure was the only bridge on the list, besting even the more famous Golden Gate Bridge. One of its greatest achievements was that it was built on time (in less than three years) and came in under budget. Mikesell explores in fascinating detail how the bridge was designed by a collection of the best-known engineers in the country as well as the heroic story of its construction by largely unskilled laborers from California, joined by highly skilled steel workers. By contrast, the East Span replacement, which was planned between 1989 and 1998, and built between 1998 and 2013, fell victim to cost overruns in the billions of dollars, was a decade behind schedule, and suffered from structural problems that has made it a perpetual maintenance nightmare. This is narrative history in its purest form. Mikesell excels at explaining highly technical engineering issues in language that can be understood and appreciated by general readers. Here is the story of two very important bridges, which provides a fair but uncompromising analysis of why one bridge succeeded and the other did not.